Check this out!

I'm testing to see how this works - I am sending this post in via email.  This is supposed to post directly to my blog without my having to log into it to post.  How cool is that?!?!?

 

We had a ton of snow yesterday - well, really about 6", but then it rained for hours on top of it, so it was very heavy.  I spent about an hour just clearing enough of the driveway to get my car in off the street!  Pete did the same when he got home.  It was still raining, so we left the rest of it for today - how fun is that?  We have a snow blower, but it's so big and bulky that it's more work for me to use that than to just shovel by hand.  At least I burn some calories shoveling!

 

Ok - let's see if this makes it to my blog - pressing send now!

A Bit of a Slow Start...

I'll admit it - I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed about all the things I want to write about here - I just don't really know where to start...

As you can see by the previous post, I just pledged to the Pound-for-Pound challenge - starting Monday the 2nd, and ending by May 5th, their deadline. For every pound of weight you lose, they donate $.10, which is enough to buy 1 pound of food for a food pantry. I pledged the max it would let me for that time period - 26 pounds. I would love to lose that much in that time frame. Coincidentally, that's just about a 12-week time period - perfect for doing a Body-for-Life challenge. My friend Sherri is planning on starting one, and I said I'd join her. I've not finished a challenge in probably 3 years - I got through 7 weeks of one last summer, but somehow got off track.

So, I'm making this commitment to myself - I'll start, and finish, a BFL challenge in that time frame, and help to feed America.

Pound For Pound Challenge

A New Look!

Not sure if anyone saw my blog yesterday, while it still had one of the default layouts offered by Blogger. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday pretty-ing this up - I got this great blog kit *free* from Shabby Miss Jenn, when I bought her Love Potion kit the day it came out. (I just love freebies!)
Anyway, with the kit, she gave great, easy to follow instructions, with examples, on how to personalize your page. Then, there was great tutorial video to watch, which made it so simple. I guess I shouldn't be giving my secrets away, but I'm just so excited about the whole thing!

I can't wait to try to design my own blog elements to see what I can come up with - I have so many great kits that will be so fun to play with.

My first post!

Wow - I have a blog, I am a blogger! Thanks to my clever friend Judy for coming up with the name for me. I was struggling with what to call this - I wanted something clever, but not too cutesy. Her suggestion definitely fit the bill!

So, why did I want a blog? Well, my latest hobby is digital scrapbooking, and nearly everyone who does so also has a blog. They use their blogs to share links to site which have great freebies, to share their layouts, and to talk about what they are working on in general. I'm pretty new to scrapping, and have done very few layouts, but this is part of why I wanted to start a blog.

I also wanted to a blog to talk about a number of other things in my life. Cooking, collecting, my cats, traveling, decorating, oh, and my quest for fitness.

I'll keep this short for now. Please keep in mind this is definitely a work in progress, and I'll be making changes and updates for the next few weeks.